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TAHITI SHED PLANT HUG ( Ly^as prat en sis L.) 
N. Y. State Coll. Agr. , Weekly News Letter (April 25): 
Tarnished plant bugs observed April IS. in Dutchess County. 
J. J. Davis (April 26): Apple leafhoppers were abundant 
early in April, but have not shown the increase anticipated. 
J..H. Bigger (April 8): The tarnished plant bug has been seen 
feeding on apple buds in Pike County. 
L. Baseman (April 25): Overwintering adults of different 
species were observed moving to apple foliage April 19. 
G-. F. Knowlton (March 25): Tarnished plant bugs are now 
active on warm days. A number of adults have been taken 
under the rough bark of apple trees, during examination of 
overwintering codling moth larvae. (April 13): Adults are 
abundant upon wheat at Collinctonat the present time. No 
nymphs have been observed up to this time. 
E. J. Newcomer' (March 30): Of 700 bugs hibernating under 
leaves in an outdoor cage, only 26, or 3.7 per cent, survived. 
These were covered with snow most of the winter and the tem- 
perature under the snow did not get below 32° E. A year ago 
the survival under similar conditions was 12.5 per cent. Bugs 
have been plentiful in cover crops during March, but little 
damage to fruit buds has occurred. 
SHOT-HOLS BORER ( Scolytus rupulosus Ratz.) 
J. Mil/ton". -. (April 20): The shot-hole borer was found 
to be infesting apple trees near Corinth in the early part of 
April. These trees ha.d been weakened by the presence of the 
San Jose scale. 
APPLE PLEA WEEVIL (Orchestes pallicornis Say) 
T. H. Parks (April 27): The apple flea weevil is very 
abundant and doing serious injury in an orchard in Jackson 
County. This county has not suffered from this insect in 
previous years. 
EUROPEAN "BED MITE ( Paratetranychus pilosus C. & P.) 
C. R. Phipps (April 25): European red mite eggs were re- 
ported in abundance in certain Oxford County orchards. 
X. I. Bourne (April 25): From all appearances fro- orchards 
over the State, the European red mite seems to be as abundant 
a.s ever. 
M. P. Zappe (April 22): Some orchards have as many as 
usual, while in other orchards eggs are very scarce. The 
general average is probably less than in other years. 
